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Luke · 1w
Lol, no. The problems you think lightning has are way overstated. If you think it's parasitic in nature, then you are calling me a parasite for collecting fees on my node. I guess you're not big int...
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it is impossible for a large number of people to run their own nodes. not just difficult, actually impossible. almost everyone on lightning is using an IOU system to borrow channels being operated by a business. they are not using their own nodes. lightning was invented to reintroduce banking into bitcoin. it is the reason why these companies exist. if lightning works, why do these companies need to exist?
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Luke · 1w
I see what's going on here. You are convinced that if bitcoin users use lightning, they are no longer self-sovereign because of the 2nd-tier custodians. I guess there was a time when I would have argued that point too, maybe back in 2016. But you lose sight of the goal with this argument; We are t...